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by
Bill Janovitz
(83)
Summary: Leon Russell is an icon, but somehow is still an under-appreciated artist. He is spoken of in tones reserved not just for the most talented musicians, but also for the most complex and fascinating....
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Call #: B RUSSELL
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Dan Gutman
Summary: Did you know that John Lennon's mom called him "Stinker" because he farted so much? Or that Paul McCartney liked playing guitar in the bathroom? Bet you didn't know that George Harrison once had his...
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Call #: J B BEATLES
Location: New Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Heather E. Schwartz
(3)
Summary: Boy band sensation BTS has taken the world by storm. These K-pop icons known for catchy music and intelligent lyrics have a fascinating story that readers will love digging into!
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Call #: J B BTS
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Alan Paul
Summary: The Allman Brothers Band's Brothers and Sisters was not only the band's best-selling album, at over seven million copies sold, but it was also a powerfully influential release, both musically and...
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Call #: 782.42166 PAU
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Tom Johnston
(249)
Summary: Only a very few rock bands have had the longevity, success, and drama of The Doobie Brothers. Born out of late 1960s NoCal, they stood alongside their contemporaries The Grateful Dead, The Allman...
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BOOK
Call #: 782.42166 JOH
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Bono
(10,442)
Summary: Bono, artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2, has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, this is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the...
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Call #: B BONO
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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(128)
Summary: Kurt Cobain burst into American consciousness with a vengeance with the release of Nevermind, an instant classic that defined a sound and a generation. Three years later, he was dead of suicide,...
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Call #: B COBAIN
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Balazs Lorinczi , artist
Summary: When Margot meets Elena, emotions run high, magic is in the air, and doughnuts float? One is a stressed out witch trying to get her potions business off the ground, the other is a struggling rock...
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BOOK
Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL LOR
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ryan Pinkard
(235)
Summary: Released in 2007, the National's fourth full-length album is one that saved them. For fans, "Boxer" is a profound personal meditation on the unmagnificent lives of adults, an elegant culmination of...
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BOOK
Call #: 782.42166 PIN
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jennifer E Smith
(26,395)
Summary: Right after the sudden death of her mother -- her first and most devoted fan -- and just before the launch of her high-stakes sophomore album, Greta James falls apart on stage. The footage quickly...
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Call #: F SMITH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Bill O'Reilly
(3,146)
Summary: The King is dead. The Walrus is shot. The Greatest is no more. Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. These three icons changed not only the worlds of music, film, and sports, but the world...
more »
BOOK
Call #: 920.71 O'RE
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Tom Beaujour
(2,110)
Summary: Hard rock in the 1980s was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that perfectly encapsulated -- and maybe even helped to define -- a spectacularly over-the-top decade....
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BOOK
Call #: 782.42166 BEA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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(629)
Summary: The most anticipated book in more than a decade by the legendary band, this is the official account of the creation of their final album, Let It Be, told in The Beatles' own words, illustrated with...
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BOOK
Call #: 782.42166 BEA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Margaret Gurevich
Series:
Who Was-- ?
(94)
Summary: David Bowie, born David Robert Jones, wasn't just an incredible singer; he had an amazing talent for keeping his fans happily guessing about what he would do next. He alternated between musical...
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BOOK
Call #: J B WHO
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sinead O'Connor
(4,684)
Summary: Born in Dublin in 1966, O'Connor's childhood was marked by a painful home life, a disdain for schooling, run-ins with the law for her incessant petty thievery, and a burgeoning love for Bob Dylan's...
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BOOK
Call #: B O'CONNOR
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Nikki Sixx
(1,862)
Summary: Born Franklin Carlton Feranna, Sixx was abandoned by his father and partly raised by his mother, a woman who was ahead of her time but deeply troubled. He lived with other family before being on his...
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Call #: B SIXX
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Robby Krieger
(871)
Summary: Few bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction has been a virtually impossible task. But now, after fifty years, The Doors' notoriously...
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BOOK
Call #: 782.42166 DOO
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Steve Van Zandt
(1,810)
Summary: What story begins in a bedroom in suburban New Jersey in the early '60s, unfolds on some of the country's largest stages, and then ranges across the globe, demonstrating over and over again how Rock...
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BOOK
Call #: B VAN ZANDT
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Dawnie Walton
(27,596)
Summary: Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude, Afro-punk before that term existed. Coming of age in Detroit, she can't imagine settling for a 9-to-5...
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BOOK
Call #: F WALTON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jessica Anya Blau
(63,251)
Summary: In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family's subscription to the Broadway Show Tunes of the Month record club....
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BOOK
Call #: F BLAU
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Philip Norman
(474)
Summary: Over fifty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix (1942|1970) is celebrated as the greatest rock guitarist of all time. But before he was setting guitars and the world aflame, James Marshall Hendrix was...
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BOOK
Call #: B HENDRIX
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
James Patterson
(8,579)
Summary: John Lennon was one of the world's most influential people. Mark David Chapman was one of the most invisible. By the end of 1980, the Beatles had been broken up for a decade -- a decade John Lennon...
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BOOK
Call #: B LENNON
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
James Patterson
(8,625)
Summary: John Lennon was one of the world's most influential people. Mark David Chapman was one of the most invisible. By the end of 1980, the Beatles had been broken up for a decade -- a decade John Lennon...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP B LENNON
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Tori Amos
(2,060)
Summary: Since the release of her first career-defining solo album, Tori Amos as been one of the music industry's most enduring and ingenious artists. From her unnerving depiction of sexual assault in "Me and...
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Call #: B AMOS
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lenny Kravitz
(5,254)
Summary: Kravitz looks back at his life with candor, self-scrutiny, and humor. It's the story of a wildly creative kid who, despite tough struggles at school and extreme tension at home, finds salvation in...
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BOOK
Call #: B KRAVITZ
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Taylor Jenkins Reid
(1,094,777)
Summary: Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. Her voice is getting...
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Call #: F REID
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ted Templeman
(521)
Summary: This autobiography (as told to Greg Renoff) recounts Templeman's remarkable life from child jazz phenom in Santa Cruz, California, in the 1950s to Grammy-winning music executive during the '70s and...
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BOOK
Call #: B TEMPLEMAN
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Maureen Mahon
Summary: African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll -- from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this,...
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BOOK
Call #: 782.42 MAH
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lana Del Rey
(35,257)
Summary: "'Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass' is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some...
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BOOK
Call #: 811.6 DEL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mike Allred , artist
(1,299)
Summary: As one of the most magnetic icons of modern pop culture, David Bowie seduced generations of fans with his music and counterculture persona. While Bowie's legacy as a musician is remarkable and...
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BOOK
Call #: B BOWIE
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Peter Frampton
(1,176)
Summary: Frampton was on a path to stardom from an early age, first as the lead singer and guitarist of the Herd and then as co-founder of one of the first supergroups, Humble Pie. As part of a tight-knit...
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BOOK
Call #: B FRAMPTON
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Flea
(19,036)
Summary: Flea takes readers on a deeply personal and revealing tour of his formative years, spanning from Australia to the New York City suburbs to, finally, Los Angeles. Through hilarious anecdotes, poetical...
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BOOK
Call #: B FLEA
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Debbie Harry
(7,151)
Summary: Harry recounts her path from glorious commercial success to heroin addiction, the near-death of partner Chris Stein, a heart-wrenching bankruptcy, and Blondie's breakup as a band to her multifaceted...
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BOOK
Call #: B HARRY
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Elton John
(56,645)
Summary: Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three he was performing his...
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BOOK
Call #: B JOHN
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jeff Walker
Summary: The Beatles weren't just the biggest pop group ever; they were the funniest. In what they said, in what they did, in what happened to them and in what was said about them. Never before has a book...
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BOOK
Call #: 782.42166 BEA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Taylor Jenkins Reid
(1,080,363)
Summary: Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. Her voice is getting...
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BOOK
Call #: F REID
Locations: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals, Adult Fiction, Hot Picks
copies in: 2 of 3
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by
Prince
(6,948)
Summary: An acclaimed musician, Prince Rogers Nelson was a visionary with an imagination deep enough to whip up whole worlds. But his most ambitious creative act was turning himself into one of the greatest...
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BOOK
Call #: B PRINCE
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Patti Smith
(14,903)
Summary: Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered...
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BOOK
Call #: B SMITH
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Elton John
(56,843)
Summary: Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three he was performing his...
more »
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP B JOHN
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ben Folds
(4,471)
Summary: Ben Folds is a celebrated American singer-songwriter, beloved for songs such as "Brick," "You Don't Know Me," "Rockin' the Suburbs," and "The Luckiest," and is the former frontman of the alternative...
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Call #: B FOLDS
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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